Take-up for cables.



No. 858,282. PATE'NTED AUG. 7, 1906 B. A. FULLER & M. BATEMA'N. TAKEFUP FOR GABLES.

APPLIOATION FILED 0GT.2'I, 1905.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

TAKE-UP FOR CABLES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 7, 1906.

Appliiation fiiel October 27,1905. Serial No. 285,226.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, BERNARD A. FULLER and MILES BATEMAN, citizens of the United States of America, and residents of Centerville, Appanoose county, Iowa, have invented a new and useful Take-Up for Cables, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide means for taking up the slack of a cable and providing for a hitch of said cable to an object.

A further object of this invention is to provide improved means for attaching a cable to a stump in the operation of a stump puller or extractor.

A further object of this invention is to provide improved means for attaching a wire cable to an object, such as a stump, and taking up the slack of such cable without in any manner damaging the cable or endangering the same by cutting its strands.

Our invention consists in the construction of the article of manufacture hereinafter set forth.

Our invention consists, further, in the combination, with a wire cable, of the article of manufacture hereinafter set forth, pointed out in our claims, and illustrated by the ac companying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective illustrating the aplication of our improved device in position for practical use. Fig. 2 is a plan, and Fig. 3 is a side elevation, of the device detached from the cable.

In the construction of the device as shown the numeral-1O designates a plate relatively thin and broad and flat on its upper surface. One end portion 11 of the plate .10 is of less width than the opposite end portion, and a loop 12 leads from opposite corners of said narrower end portion. The lower margin of the loop 12 is in the same plane with the lower face of the plate 10; but the body of said loop lies in a plane above that of the upper surface of said plate. The loop 12 partially incloses a space that is approxlmately egg-shaped in plan view, and sald loop is curved approximately semicircular in cross-section, with its concaved face outward. A rib 13 crosses the narrower end portion 11 of the plate and is integral with and connects said plate and both ends of the loop 12. Hooks 14 15 are formed on and extend upward from and toward each other above the wider end portion of the plate 10. Ribs 16 17 are formed on In practical use the bight 19 of a wire cable 20 is looped around and in the concaved face of the loop 12, theadvancing portion of said bight in contact with the hook 14 and the return portion in the hook and in contact with the advancing portion and extending around an object, such as a stump 21, and forward through the hook 15. To insure, perfect working of the hooks and loop mutually, the

hook 15 should be removed laterally of the longer diameter of the loop 12 a greater distance than the hook 14. When the cable 20 is used for draft purposes, the strain is applied to the portion thereof extending from the hook 15. Such strain is applied directly to the object 21, and the bight of the cable is prevented from slipping through the device by extension through the hook 14 and around the loop 12. The opposite end of the cable 20 may be supplied with a hook for use at times; but the take-up device is employed advantageously in making hitches of the bight of the cable to an object in that it 'avoids moving the Windlass and permits a short strain length of cable to be used.

We claim as our invention 1. A take-up device, comprising a plate, a loop integral therewith, and hooks integral with the plate opposite said loop.

2. A take-up device, comprising a plate, a loop integral therewith, and hooks integral with said plate and opposite said loop; said hooks differently spaced from the plane of the longer diameter of the loop.

3. As an improved article of manufacture, a take-up device comprising a plate, a loop integral therewith, hooks integral with the plate, strengthening-ribs on and further connecting the loop and plate, and strengthening-ribs on and further connecting said plate and hooks.

4. The combination of a plate, a loop and hooks formed integral with said plate, and a cable having its bight passed through one hook, around said loop and back through said hook in contact with the portion first passing through said hook, and thence extending around an object and through the other hook and adapted for connection to an plate and opposite said loop, said hooks arextraneous device. ranged opposite each other.

5. As an improved article of manufacture, Signed by us at Centerville, Iowa, this 29th a take-up device comprising a plate, a loop day of April, 1905. 5 integral with said plate, said loop having its I BERNARD A FULLER lower margin flush with the lower face of said MILES BATE'MAN plate and its body projecting above the plane of the upperface of said plate, said loop con- Witnesses: cavo-convex in cross-sectionwith its concave R. M. HIoKs. 1o face outward, and hooks integral with said J. I. ONG. 

